Idaho town seeks to lure gun and ammo makersFirearms are a $3.8 billion industry that employs 90,000 people in the United States. Many firearms companies have long been headquartered in states like Massachusetts and Connecticut, where the political climate has turned more hostile to firearms.

Stern Advice-Investors pressed to go alternativeStrictly speaking, an alternative investment can mean anything that isn't a plain vanilla stock or bond, but now it represents a trendy grab-bag category that can include everything from gold or currency to mutual funds that employ hedges, leverage, options, short-selling, derivatives and more.

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GQ UK: Robert Chalmers doesn't like...female comediansAs the seemingly unlimited supply of mediocre yet ferociously persistent women comics has proved, it really isn't that easy to stand up and be funny. Silverman unquestionably belongs to the gifted three per cent. As for the majority, you can only hope that, one day, they'll master the basics of that other elusive and precious skill: sitting down and shutting up. (May contain offensive material)

Court dumps patent lawsuit against online retailer, PC Connection and others settled earlier The judge, however, found that the retailers didn't infringe, that the claims weren't valid and said that the defendants can recover their legal fees. What's incredible about this case is that when it was originally filed it was against 16 defendants and then more were added a few months later, but as you look down the docket, you also see plenty of orders granting stipulations for dismissal, which are really indications that many of the defendants chose not to fight, but rather to pay up. I bet those companies, including 1-800-Flowers, Briggs & Stratton, PC Connection, CircuitCity, Officemax and others are kind of regretting that decision right now.